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The Duke’s Secret (Sue Williams, A&U) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In The Duke’s Secret, the latest historical fiction by Sue Williams (The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress), journalist Ava Washington sets out to verify a family legend. According to...

In a Common Hour (Sita Walker, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Dedicated to the Queensland state school teachers she works alongside, Sita Walker’s debut novel, In a Common Hour, offers readers a story with universal school politics. Over the course of...

UK Translation Prizes shortlists announced 

Cover of Eve Manasse's book, 'Darkenbloom'. Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In the UK, the Society of Authors has released shortlists for its 2025 Translation Prizes, which recognise outstanding translations of prose, poetry and nonfiction from any language. Among the finalists...

Bundyi acquires Sawyer’s debut

A photo of Luca Sawyer standing outside. Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bundyi has acquired world rights to Luca Sawyer’s novel Nightcrawlers. Written from a First Nations perspective, Sawyer’s debut explores leaving Country, the experience of urban isolation, and the challenges posed...

MUP acquires Stafford nonfiction

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired world rights to The Wanted and Unwanted by Annabel Stafford, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Creative Management. According to the publisher,...

Waterstones names 2025 books of the year 

Cover of Lucy Steeds’s The Artist showing still life painting of fruit and flowers. Monday, 1 December 2025
In the UK, the Waterstones bookselling group has named Lucy Steeds’s The Artist (John Murray) as its Book of the Year, with Mikey Please’s The Café at the Edge of...

Vale Graeme Turner

Photo of Graeme Turner. Monday, 1 December 2025
Cultural studies academic Graeme Turner, author of books including The Shrinking Nation (UQP, 2023), has died. His most recent publisher, Monash University Publishing, pays tribute: With great sadness we share that...

MidnightSun Publishing launches picture book prize

An image of the MidnightSun picture book proze logo. Monday, 1 December 2025
MidnightSun Publishing has announced the MidnightSun Picture Book Prize, a new manuscript prize for emerging or established picture book writers across Australia. Entries are open until 25 December, with the...

Magabala acquires Pascoe & Norris’s “Big Sky”

A photo of Bruce Pascoe. He stands outside and is wearing a red shirt. Monday, 1 December 2025
Magabala Books has acquired Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth by First Nations author Bruce Pascoe and astrophysicist Ray Norris. A Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man, Pascoe is...

Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak”

Cover of Rick Morton’s 'Mean Streak'. Monday, 1 December 2025
Mean Streak (Fourth Estate), Rick Morton’s account of the robodebt scandal, has won this year’s Walkley Book Award. Judges said, “Mean Streak is a riveting and detailed exposition of government...

IPA expands membership, firms up 2026 congress 

International Publishers Association logo incorporating stylised book. Thursday, 27 November 2025
The International Publishing Association this week named two provisional new national members, released the results of its online elections, and confirmed details of the 2026 International Publishers Congress, to take...

Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2025 winners announced

Thursday, 27 November 2025
The winners of the 2025 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winning works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Nadia Mahjouri for The Miracle (published in Island Magazine) Nonfiction ($2500)...

A&U acquires Hardy’s memoir and novel

An image of Emma Hardy. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Emma Hardy’s memoir Periodic Bitch and a planned novel, in a two-book deal brokered by Michaela McGuire at a4 Literary. According...

Ticket sales double at Readings’s A Day In Carlton 

'A Day in Carlton' logo, with blue lettering on orange background. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Readings Bookshop’s annual A Day in Carlton festival (“actually a day and a bit,” said the organisers) was held in Melbourne from 13 to 15 November. Attracting 2800 attendees —...

Rights round-up 

The cover of "Prima Facie" by Suze Miller. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Romanian rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Niculescu; and Turkish rights to 3 titles by Patrick White (Voss, The Eye of the...

A&U acquires accessible picture book

Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull in front of Richard Dunn's painting, Redbank Gorge, MacDonnell Ranges, c. 1936-37 (after Albert Namatjira), 2002-2010, from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Collection. Copyright The Estate of Richard Dunn, courtesy Charles Nodrum Gallery. Photograph by Tim Harris, Red Antler Photography. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to All the Ways I See, by Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. Sophie...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

The Last Resort (Amanda Hewitt, Echo) 

Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Amanda Hewitt’s debut, The Last Resort, opens with Abbey, newly divorced and reeling from the end of her marriage, as she seeks solace in the Maldives. During a late-night swim,...

 

 

 

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